Sorry for those couldn’t care less, but this is the only way I can inform my readers.

My blog has been locked by Blogger’s spam-prevention robots. I will not be able to publish update it. The unlock request has been sent, but I don’t know when it will be fulfilled.

Update – Ajit here: Dek is talking about No Fat Clips which is a site that goes hand in hand with Ticklebooth. I am sorry buddy, hope the problem is sorted quickly. This comes a day after I complained about Ticklebooth taking a spam beating over the weekend. Because of that I have added an extra level of comment authorization when you do comment. Pretty simple, hopefully it works.

Rhwinter suggests this scene from The Big Lebowski as part of our ongoing Favorite Scenes series from the movies. I have created a seperate category for these posts. If you would like to submit a scene, leave it in the comments.

To make classic Hungarian cheese, here are the ingredients you will need:

1) One teaspoon of a Hungarian rapper in a dark trench coat. Don’t forget to pay homage to the “black brothers.”
2) Four cups of boy-band-reject background singers.
3) Several chorus servings of “sometimes people make a war, don’t know what is it for, say you start the war.”
4) With the chorus, mix these lyrics: “yea, come on, yea, once again…bizness.”
5) Spice it up with shots of guns, vulnerable women, cemeteries and guys in masks. Don’t forget to add the shots of the Porsche.
6) Marinate the entire thing with earnestness.
7) Serve by throwing a dove in the air.

To the creators of this video, I pay my respects to you because your cheese contains ample amounts of much-desired earnestness. Apologies for being such a cynical knucklehead.

A slideshow/ video on the behind-the-scenes of Trent Park’s Minutes to Midnight. One of the most outstanding, awe-inspiring collection of photos I have ever seen.

Park and his partner, both Australians, travel through the Australian outback in an effort to document the Australian spirit. Fascinating, inspiring and incredible. I can’t wait to get my hands on the book. A must-see!

In 2003, with wife and fellow photographer Narelle Autio, Parke drove almost 90,000 kilometres around Australia. He had been saving for five years to make a road trip, but finally set off after noticing a newspaper survey that claimed most Australians thought their country had come to the end of an era. Parke says it was then he decided that the time had come to find out what his country had become. Minutes to Midnight, the collection of photographs from this journey, offers a sometimes disturbing portrait of 21st-century Australia, from the desiccated outback to the chaotic, melancholic vitality of life in remote Aboriginal towns.

I don’t know why spammers have once again taken a liking to this site but coming back from a long weekend to find more 3,000 spam comments is maddening. None of this reaches my mailbox or the comments section thanks to the Akismet plug-in for WordPress. However, I’ve been a little more trigger-happy with deleting the comments that Akismet has classified as spam.

So if you have commented in the last couple of weeks on the elegance of the site or how you find the content so engaging, it will surely have been deleted. In spam-riddled world, it is impossible to trust a compliment. A comment with the word “nice” will be automatically deleted till the flood subsides.

In the meanwhile, I will be looking to adding another layer of difficulty to commenting. We will see.

Here’s a new installment in cross blogging. You’ll find another short by the same author on No Fat Clips!!!

“The work of American experimental composer George Crumb served as the inspiration for this experimental animation. Crumb‘snotation method is unconventional â€” fluid and artistic. This piece is an abstract visualization of his music and carries his idea into animation. The musical notes fly underwater after emerging from a giant shell with a texture of notes. After Effects and Cinema 4D were used for 2D compositing and 3D animation.” (Source: Digital Content Producer)

The short has been made by Heebok Lee. And it’s very, very fascinating.Download. (Windows Media)